Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

*re­minder: Project 1
due M 08-Feb: Video (class-time) & Sum­mary (9pm on blog)

Week 5

M 08-Feb Dis­cuss: Project 1 out­comes + Unit 2 top­ics & goals

• fo­cus: in­sights from video about belief-story mode (for reflec­tion blog en­try);
  about public/social genre/mode — audi­ence — cir­cu­la­tion (pub­lish to site/social me­dia?)
   
• (new unit topic) Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of Dis­ci­pline Com­mu­ni­ca­tion; Project 2
  —start­ing point: “sketch” of your major/field (initial/current view of dis­ci­pline, infor­ma­tion, spe­cial­ized dis­course)

Blog En­try: Project 1 Re­flec­tion

• 200 words, infor­mal; due Tues­day 09-Feb (9pm)
• sug­gested: share your video on­line (your choice) for more spe­cific dis­cus­sions of public/social con­ven­tions, audi­ence, cir­cu­la­tion

» Prompt: re­flect upon Unit 1 & Project 1 and dis­cuss your in­sights from cre­at­ing your video (and con­sid­er­ing pub­lish­ing on­line for pub­lic au­di­ences). Ad­dress any/all top­ics we have dis­cussed: what you’ve learned about the con­nec­tion of be­lief and story (as a par­a­digm and a mode of com­mu­ni­ca­tion); con­ven­tions of nar­ra­tive, par­tic­u­larly as a public/social genre (in terms of language/style) and as a networked/online form (per­haps with un­ex­pected view­ers and cir­cu­la­tion?); how view­ers might re­spond to your video (com­ment, share, tell you a per­sonal story, cre­ate their own) — es­pe­cially con­sid­er­ing how you’ve con­veyed the belief/value through nar­ra­tive and rhetor­i­cal choices for this project. Be sure to note at least one point of “take­away” from the unit, con­cern­ing be­lief as a form of knowl­edge and nar­ra­tion as a dis­tinct mode of com­mu­ni­ca­tion.
 

W 10-Feb hy­brid work:

• watch Unit Overview Video
   
• Dis­cus­sion in com­ments be­low:
  share your ini­tial “Field Sketch” (brief list + me­dia)
  and on­line source in/for your dis­ci­pline (find + fol­low)
  — class­mate re­ply: compare/contrast (points of dis­tinc­tion or sim­i­lar­ity)
   
  *Note: you might ad­di­tion­ally re­ply to a classmmate’s blog en­try, with a short com­ment on their post (op­tional / ex­tra par­tic­i­pa­tion credit)
• prepa­ra­tion for Fri­day: iden­tify representative/recent read­ing & assign­ment from your ma­jor (an­other course) — to bring/reference in dis­cus­sion next class

F 12-Feb Read for dis­cussion: Ouel­lette, “Veni, Vidi, Wiki: Exper­tise as Knowl­edge and a Tech­no­cratic Gen­er­a­tion” Recon­struc­tion 10.2 (2010)

• Fo­cus: “exper­tise,” rhetor­i­cal con­ven­tions, & “infor­ma­tion” of (your) field
  — use/reference major-course reading/book and assign­ment as ex­am­ples
   
• look­ing ahead: be­gin compiling/browsing (re­search) for Anno­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy (due 02/21) — first exercise/component of Project 2